About the Authors

Michal Shauly-Aharonov

Contributed equally to this work with: Michal Shauly-Aharonov, Asher Shafrir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, The Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel

Asher Shafrir

Contributed equally to this work with: Michal Shauly-Aharonov, Asher Shafrir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medicine, Meuhedet Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Gastroenterology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Ora Paltiel

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Karem Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Ronit Calderon-Margalit

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Rifaat Safadi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, Liver and Gastroenterology Unit, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Roee Bicher

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Finance Division, Department of Information, Meuhedet Health Services Tel Aviv, Israel

Orit Barenholz-Goultschin

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Endocrinology Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Joshua Stokar

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yehoshua.stokar@mail.huji.ac.il

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Endocrinology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.